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Be the change you want to see – even I complained about Android apps quality. So now I’m actively trying to work on quality Android apps.

I’m quiet but I’m cooking. Zachary made me do it. Coming to Dote Note testers today and to the rest of you – Dote Note will be in Google Play in about a week:)

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Very basic widgets but that’s just the first step. Getting it out to testers and hopefully I will be publishing it in the next two to three weeks!

Widgets would be nice. Working on it, maybe I can finish them BEFORE 1.0 🙂

I need some testers to test my notes app before I would be able to put it on the Google Play Store. If you’d be able to help – send me over your email address. I’ll add you to the closed tests and reply with a link! Who knows, you might love this app!

#desktop and #dock

Caved in and bought that Revolut premium plan. But only because it came with both travel insurance and NordVPN! I’ve also taken their offer for their credit card with 1% chargeback and moved ALL of my subscriptions there. End of the year is always bringing some weird changes like this. I’ve also changed the resolution of my new Mac to be a bit higher (went from 1512×982 to 1800×1169). As you can see, serious shit is happening here.

Is LinageOS any good?

Still mourning losing Tot when moved from iOS to Android so I made myself an app that’s my version of Tot on Android, but better 😅

My github is wild. Love this change.

Let’s do this. My Defaults from 2025. If you want to check previous entries – here’s the 2023 one that started it all, then 2024 one is here.

If there was a change I’ll add ✨ there.

✨ 📨 Mail Client: ~~Mail.app on both iOS and macOS, for work – Mimestream (Google accounts only)~~ Fastmail app on Android, Fastmail web on desktop. For work – Superhuman on both phone and desktop.

📮 Mail Server: Fastmail / Google for work

✨ 📝 Notes: ~~Obsidian~~, Tot and Day One – instead of Obsidian I’m using Standard Notes. I find myself making less and less notes.

✨✅ To-Do: Akiflow and ~~Things~~ Google Tasks – since moving to Android I’m using Google Tasks as reminders. Big things are going to Akiflow.

✨📷 ~~iPhone~~ OnePlus 13 Photo Shooting: Standard camera app

🟦 Photo Management: Lightroom

✨📆 Calendar: ~~Calendar on iOS~~ I moved to Google Calendar, Akiflow on Mac

✨📁 Cloud File Storage: ~~iCloud~~ Google Drive + Backblaze B2

📖 RSS: FreshRSS with Reeder on MacOS but Capy Reader on Android

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Contacts

✨🌐 Browser: ~~Arc Browser for Mac and Arc Search for iOS~~ I’m using Brave everywhere, Chrome for work and Dia for personal projects.

💬 Chat: Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp

🔖 Bookmarks: Browser

✨📑 Read It Later: ~~Good Links~~ I didn’t read anything later so I ditched it.

✨🤖 Mastodon: ~~Ivory and IceCubes~~ Moshidon on Android, web on desktop.

📖 Blog: micro.blog and Day One

⌨️ Launcher: Raycast

✨📜 Word Processing: ~~Obsidian~~ Google Docs mostly.

📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets

📊 Presentations: Google Slides

✨🛒 Shopping Lists: ~~Reminders~~ We don’t do that anymore – just texting each other notes on Signal.

✨💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: ~~YNAB~~ Actual Budget.

📰 News: RSS

✨🎵 Music: Spotify – well, mostly MP3s now.

🎤 Podcasts: Pocket Casts

✨🎮 Gaming: PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch and ~~Anbernic RG35XX~~ – FPGBC + Nintendo DSi.

🔐 Password Management: 1Password

✨👨🏻‍💻 Terminal: ~~WebSSH~~ Warp.

I’m glad we decided that Cloudflare should be the backbone of the internet. Thanks to that I’m able to not use it at least for a moment.

Got ’em.